Leave to Remain

Mark Lancaster: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what measure of (a) length of academic year and (b) hours per academic year the Department used in calculating the 15 hours minimum time that a student must spend in organised study per week when applying for leave to remain as a student.

Tony McNulty: The rationale behind the minimum of 15 hours organised day time study is to help ensure that a migrant's primary purpose in being in the UK is for study as a full-time student. It has been in the Immigration Rules since 1983 and is also consistent with DfES definitions of full-time study.
	
		West Midlands: Police Community Support Officers
		
			 Strength as at: Number 
		
		
			 September 2004 40 
			 March 2005 219 
			 September 2005 247